Patent GB-332647-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to confectionery and the like
IPC: A23G3/02
Filed: 1929-08-13
Abstract: 332,647. Taroni, C. E., Prescott, W. E., Baker Perkins, Ltd., and Anciens Etablissements A. Savy, Jeanjean, et Cie Soc. Anon. Aug. 13, 1929. Moulding confectionery; depositing.machines.- Wrapped concentrated table jellies or other sweetmeats consisting of readily separable portions are made by passing mould wrappers, consisting of flexible wrapping means 10, Fig. 5, and partitions 50 adapted to be embedded in the set jelly dividing the mould space into a number of cells, successively beneath a depositing machine 20 and through a cooling chamber to promote the setting of the jelly. Part of the wrapper is then folded down on to the jelly to complete the closure. Trays 8 containing mould pockets 9 are fed at A on to an endless conveyer 6, being mounted so that they maintain a horizontal position, each mould pocket receiving a lining in the form of a bag or container 10 of grease-proof paper or cardboard with a block bottom. The mould pockets may be lined by hand, a pair of tongs being used to straighten out the bottoms of the bags and each pocket receives partitions comprising strips 50 of waxed paper or card connected together by interengaging slots and of a height slightly less than the depth of the jelly. The trays pass beneath the jets 21 of the depositing machine 20 adapted to inject a charge of jelly into each mould, and then through a cooling chamber. At the delivery point the mould trays are transferred by another conveyer to a wrapping machine where the upstanding mouths of the bags are folded down upon the set jellies and the wrapped jellies taken from the trays. The empty trays are returned to the feeding station A by a gravity or other conveyer. The partitions 50 may have a number of semi-circular cut-out portions on their lower edges so that the jelly will flow into the various cells. Small pieces of the jelly may be readily detached from the set slab by flexing or tearing the partitions. The conveyer 6 is driven continuously and the depositer pump is so actuated by epicyclic gearing that the delivery from the jets 21 takes place within the opening of the lined mould 9. A shaft 26 driven by a motor through a sprocket wheel 28 drives a cam shaft 30 carrying spur gearing 33, 34 by which the conveyer is driven. Fixed to the shaft 26 is a cage member 35 carrying planet gears 37 meshing with a sun pinion 38 fixed on a shaft 39 which through sprocket gears 41, 43, 44 drives the depositer pump 63. The planet gears mesh with a relatively stationary annulus 40 having on its exterior a worm wheel 51, engaging a worm 50. In the spur wheel 33 is formed a cam groove 45 receiving a roller 46 on a bell crank 47 the other arm of which is connected by a link 48 to an oscillating frame 49 carrying the worm 50. When the frame 49 together with the annulus 40 oscillates an increased speed will be imparted to the sun wheel 38 and this is arranged to take place while a bank of moulds is passing under the nozzle 21, and is followed by a period of decreased speed when the annulus is stationary, corresponding to the space 19 between the mould trays. For adjustment of the timing the worm 50 may be rotated by a knob 52. In modifications, the jets 21 may oscillate or reciprocate to follow the movement of the moulds or the arrangement described in Specification 275,410 may be used to bring the moulds to rest during charging.